Site Reliability Engineer NEX

About the role

The NexTier Technology team is looking for a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to help build, scale, and maintain highly reliable systems on Google Cloud Platform (GCP).

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and manage scalable, reliable infrastructure on GCP
• Maintain and improve system availability, performance, and latency
• Build and manage infrastructure as code using tools like Terraform or similar
• Develop automation to reduce manual operational work
• Monitor systems using observability tools (metrics, logs, tracing) and respond to incidents
• Participate in on-call rotations and lead incident response and postmortems
• Collaborate with development teams to improve service reliability and deployment processes
• Optimize cloud resource usage and cost efficiency
• Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines for reliable software delivery
• Define and track SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, or similar roles
• Strong experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) services (e.g., Compute Engine, GKE, Cloud Run, Cloud Storage)
• Experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes)
• Proficiency in at least one programming language (e.g., Python, Go, Java)
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform preferred)
• Solid understanding of networking, security, and distributed systems
• Experience with monitoring and logging tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Cloud Monitoring)
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and automation tools
• Hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform, including: GCP: GKE, Compute Engine, Cloud Storage, Pub/Sub (or equivalents)
• Kubernetes: deployment, scaling, reliability patterns
• CICD: GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or similar
• Observability: GCP Cloud Monitoring, Logging
• Experience operating systems in 24/7 production environments

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Information Technology, Computer Science, or a related field.
• 3+ years experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Cloud Platform Engineering, or DevOps
• 3+ years operating production workloads on Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
• Ability to understand and speak English at a level of proficiency allowing employee to issue, receive and respond to both safety and operations-related directions in English

Skills

• Experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) services (e.g., Compute Engine, GKE, Cloud Run, Cloud Storage)
• Containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes)
• Programming languages (e.g., Python, Go, Java)
• Terraform for Infrastructure as Code
• Monitoring and logging tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Cloud Monitoring)
• CI/CD pipelines and automation tools
• Google Cloud Platform, including: GCP: GKE, Compute Engine, Cloud Storage, Pub/Sub (or equivalents)
• Kubernetes: deployment, scaling, reliability patterns
• CICD: GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or similar
• Observability: GCP Cloud Monitoring, Logging

Benefits

NexTier offers a competitive benefits package including health insurance, retirement plans, and paid time off.

Pay

Competitive salary based on experience and qualifications.

Schedule

Full-time position with flexible working hours to accommodate 24/7 operations.